Once you have all your documents all made and you have arrived to the United States then, that at the Air port you would have to pass through the POE (port of entry) this is the last huddle for you before you enter the United States with a legal status no matter on what visa or for what ever reason you are traveling.

Here at the port of entry the immigration or the customs officer would be asking you questions about your travel and the reasons of your travel, the duration of the stay which is intended for and they would be expecting reasonable answers as per the other paper works would say there could be conversations that he or she might choose to indulge in to based upon what the officer deems fit. Once all that is done, and the officer is convinced with the reason of your travel and he is sure about the legal aspect of your passport, visa and other related paper works then they would stamp your passport. Once the stamping is done then they would be giving you the counter part of the I 94 form.

Now you need to understand that what ever date is mentioned in the I 94 is what your legal deadline is for staying in the United States. This has got nothing to do with the dates mentioned on the Visa. As per the new program called US Visit, the travelers to the United States would be required essentially to provide the authorities with their finger prints and their digital photo graphs. This law is applicable at all the 115 airports across the United States, along with the 15 sea ports that are present in the United States. All the travelers would have to pose for the digital photographs and their finger prints would be collected by the designated officers, at the port of entry.

This US Visit program has added another level of security to the United States department of homeland security. Now once all that is done. Then you are all good to move ahead to proceed towards the luggage collection counter. The conveyer belt would be carrying your baggage to you. What you also need to understand that like you your luggage would also have to pass through different levels of security before they are actually permitted in to the United States. Thus once the officials are convinced about the contents of your luggage are absolutely not hazardous then only they are passed for collection by the traveler. So the luggage collection counter would be the last stop for you in the airport post that you could proceed towards the cab.

The limits for the fiscal year 09, has been fixed as per the provisions of the INA Act (Sec 201). As per the said Immigration and Nationality Act (Sec 201), the annual minimum family sponsored preference limit is 226,000. However as per the same act the Upper limit for the preferred immigrants has been set to a maximum of 7% of the total applications received from the country for the employment based preference and the annual family sponsored preference. However, only 2% has been allotted for the dependent area limit.

The Sec 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, defines the preference of the family sponsored preferences as per the under mentioned.

First – The preference would be given to the unmarried children for the citizens and the number stands at 23,400 plus what ever is the surplus from the numbers allotted to the 4^th preference.

Second – The send in the line would be the spouses and children along with the unmarried children of the permanent residents of the United States.

Third – Third in the line comes the children of citizens who are married in different countries and are have been staying there. The upper limit for this category has been fixed at 23400 plus the surplus of the first two preferences.

Fourth – Siblings of adult United State citizens, and the upper limit of this preference e has been capped at 65,000. This category would also include the surplus of the previous 3 preferences.

There has been mentioned some preferences for the employment based immigrations as well.

1. 28.6% of the world wide employment based preference level would be allowed as the first preference.

2. People in profession who holds advanced degree. This category has been capped at the maximum of 28.6% of the world wide employment based preference level.

3. The third category is for the skilled workers and the professionals. Again capped at 28.6% of the world wide employment based preference level.

4. This category is for the special immigrants being capped at 7.1% of the total world wide level.